13 October, 2016

'What have we achieved with this endless
war? Failed states, mass refugee migrations and worse terrorist
threats. They are not getting better, whether you look at the
Taliban, who are stronger, have more territory now than they did when
we began fighting them some 16 years ago, whether you look at
al-Qaeda, which has become a global movement, or ISIS. This doesn’t
work, yet it’s costing us half of our discretionary budget and
almost half of your income taxes'

Amy Goodman
of Democracy Now! explains again the process, in this second
presidential debate: “We spend the rest of today’s show airing
excerpts of the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate and give Green
Party presidential candidate Jill Stein a chance to respond to the
same questions posed to the major-party candidates. Again, Dr. Stein
and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson were excluded
from the debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on
Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and
Republican parties. We invited both Stein and Johnson to join us on
the program; only Stein took us up on the offer.”

In this
second part of the second debate, Trump focused on the "threat"
of the waves of refugees. Clinton defended the refugees, but put all
the blame on ... guess who: Russia and Syria!

Again, Stein
exhibited her superiority by saying the whole truth. That the endless
US wars and interventions are responsible for the failed states, mass
refugee migrations and worse terrorist threats. This is the root of
the problem, and the US should change policy towards what Jill Stein
said:

“Instead
of continuing to pour gasoline on this fire, we need to take a stand
on behalf of a weapons embargo to all parties, since our weapons are
getting into the hands of all parties. We need to impose a freeze on
the bank accounts of our allies that are continuing to fund terrorist
enterprises, and to work with the Turks, who are our ally—in name,
at least—to close down their border to the flow of terrorist
militias across their border. That is the contribution that we need
to make.”

There is no need for further analysis here. Every point
that Jill Stein made about the US disastrous wars and interventions,
was spot on. Just read her response below:

Key
points:

Millions of people are fleeing for their lives from
Syria. I think it’s something like half of a million people have
actually been killed in Syria. It is a humanitarian catastrophe that
we have very much to do with. The power of ISIS in Syria comes
directly out of the catastrophe of Iraq, which Hillary Clinton
supported, and Donald Trump did, as well. At least initially, he
supported going into Iraq. Hillary Clinton certainly led the charge
into Libya and created that catastrophe, which led to the release of
huge stockpiles of arms and incredible violence and catastrophic
situation in Libya, all of which helped fan the flames in Syria.

So, we have certainly a great deal to do with the
crisis in Syria, and not to mention that we have been bombing in
Syria, as well, and apparently funding some of the rebel groups, the
very unsavory rebel groups, which appear to be al-Qaeda-related.
So, we have had a major hand in the chaos of Syria and, indeed, the
major hand instigating the chaos in the Middle East.

It’s also really important that we go back to this
crisis in Syria and in the Middle East, and instead of continuing to
pour gasoline on this fire, we need to take a stand on behalf of a
weapons embargo to all parties, since our weapons are getting into
the hands of all parties. We need to impose a freeze on the bank
accounts of our allies that are continuing to fund terrorist
enterprises, and to work with the Turks, who are our ally—in name,
at least—to close down their border to the flow of terrorist
militias across their border. That is the contribution that we need
to make.

And we need to reinstigate the ceasefire and begin a
peace process in Syria. The language being used by Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton toward Syria is extremely irresponsible and very
dangerous and is bringing us to the brink of conflict with Russia,
another nuclear-armed power that could blow up on us very quickly. We
need to be very cautious about where this is going.

I think it’s very important that the American people
have the benefit of knowing what we are paying for this war and what
we are getting from it. This war, according to a Harvard study a
couple years ago, would cost us about $6 trillion for just Iraq and
Afghanistan alone, when you include the ongoing costs of caring
for our wounded veterans, who deserve far more than what they’re
getting, not only in healthcare, housing, PTSD support, job training,
etc. But it’s about $6 trillion, which comes down to about $50,000
for every American household.

What have we achieved with this endless war? Failed
states, mass refugee migrations and worse terrorist threats. They are
not getting better, whether you look at the Taliban, who are
stronger, have more territory now than they did when we began
fighting them some 16 years ago, whether you look at al-Qaeda, which
has become a global movement, or ISIS. This doesn’t work, yet it’s
costing us half of our discretionary budget and almost half of your
income taxes. So, it’s very important that we have a new
offensive in the Middle East. We call it a peace offensive. And it
begins with a weapons embargo and with a freeze on the bank accounts
of our allies, like Saudi Arabia, if they continue to insist on
funding terrorist enterprises around the world.

The
conclusion from this second part of the second debate is that Hillary
Clinton showed again her dangerous obsession against Russia and its
allies, ignoring the fact that the US and their allies are
responsible for the chaos in Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere. Yet,
neither Donald Trump dared to go as far as Jill Stein. He focused
mostly on blaming Hillary again.

Jill Stein
showed again that she has the political courage to identify directly
the real root of the problems in order to deal with them, without
playing any games.